Example sentences for: prominence

How can you use “prominence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Madrid, El País gave front-page prominence to an order by the Ukrainian president for a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl to be reopened May 5. In London, the Times led with the news that gay sex at 16 was likely to be made legal in Britain by the summer, while the Guardian led on an opinion poll jointly sponsored by it and the Irish Times showing overwhelming support in Ireland, north and south, for the Ulster peace deal, despite its rejection by large sections of the Protestant leadership in the north.

  • The Daily Telegraph of London, in a report from Washington by Hugo Gurdon and right-wing conspiracy theorist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, gave front-page prominence to allegations in the Paula Jones case that President Clinton raped nursing-home administrator Juanita Broaddrick in a hotel room in Little Rock, Ark.

  • The Daily Telegraph also considered this story worthy of its front page, although the Times gave greater prominence to a story about the queen's sister: "Prince Margaret recovers after scalding feet in bath."

  • Unless emergency medicine staff with an interest in integrating alcohol treatment services into emergency care assume greater prominence and leadership in their field, effecting change within this specialty will be slow and uneven.

  • Customs anticipated that trade issues would assume greater prominence in the coming years as developing countries continue to industrialize, corporations continue to expand internationally, and trade barriers continue to fall.


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